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Thursday, January 06, 2005

The Betrayal of the Sons of Usnach

I have this hard-bound book which is scarcely larger than a pocket book, of Irish Sagas and Folktales. This is by Eileen O'Faolain. I have enjoyed reading from it, and am still doing so, just having finished the story of the Naisi orNaoise, and his brothers, the sons of Usnach. Now I've found another version of the Betrayal of the Usnach, of which Megan Powell has put her copyright on a version of the old Irish legend.

It was hard for me to find a link to a review of O'Faolain's book. Am still looking. I would like to do the first review for Amazon, but they aren't paying me, and in order to log in and write a review I have to give them a credit card number. Uh uh, not yet. I'm not about to donate my services to that giant. Maybe some independent, small book seller.

Anybody have any inside connections to Amazon to where they'd pay me for my reviews?

I'm going to commit as much of the Cuchullin and Fin Mac Cool stories to memory, and pass them on to my children and others. Already at the school where I sub, one of the students asked me to teach him some Irish language and poetry.

You are the Gender Abolitionist type of feminist. This means that you
feel the best way to destroy patriarchal oppression is to rid ourselves
of misguided gender roles, and instead live in a society that does not
make such marked assumptions about gender differences. The Gender
Abolitionist is culturally radical, but rather conservative when it
comes to sexual liberation and politics. You have a strong sense of
human rights for all. In fact, you are actually a very moral person.
You don't see people in terms of gender and are thus very philosophical
in order to perceive the world in such a manner. You think people
shouldn't identify others in terms of gender. When most people see a
person, the first thing they think is "That person is a woman" or "That
person is a man", but they do NOT think "That person is a
short-fingernail". Most make someone's gender their IDENTITY, but
fingernail length would never be considered part of their identity. A
gender abolitionist would claim gender should be like fingernail
length--it shouldn't be part of someone's identity. By making gender a
part of identity, difference is emphasized and oppression is often
justified. Thus, gender shouldn't be regarded to such a large extent by
society. You are mostly concerned with seeing women become fully
equalized with men by eliminating gender roles, as these roles oppress
women.